1/21/2024 0 Comments Five of a kind bluegrass“What’s good for one, is good for all.”Ĭowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival is a cut above the competition artistically, with several Grammy Award-winning and Juno Award nominated acts performing this weekend, including The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys (Nashville, Tennessee), AJ Lee and Blue Summit (Santa Cruz, California), and Veranda (Montreal). “What’s good for smaller festivals is good for everybody,” he said. 4-6), and cited their dedication to bluegrass music as integral to the festival culture on Vancouver Island. Remington voiced his support of both the Chemainus Bluegrass Extravaganza & Festival (July 15) and the Coombs Bluegrass Festival (Aug. The four-day festival, whose early-entry crowd arrived on site Thursday, a day prior to today’s official opening, is not alone where bluegrass on Vancouver Island is concerned. And bluegrass people, nothing is going to stop them when Cowichan comes around.“ They’ll drive two hours through a blinding blizzard at 40-below to go curling. “People who are into bluegrass are like curlers on on the Prairies. Ticket sales thus far support his theory. “We’re it, for multi-day bluegrass festivals of this size,” Remington said. That makes it the largest bluegrass and old-time music festival in B.C. Now based at Laketown Ranch Music & Recreation Park, a 250-acre multi-use entertainment complex near Youbou, the Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival can accommodate upwards of 2,000 patrons. Organizers eventually found a sympathetic location and made the move from Sooke to Lake Cowichan in 2019. You have to have a place where people can camp and sit around all night.” “With bluegrass culture, people get together for three or four days, and set up a 24-7 community village, where they sit around and jam. Securing a new home was difficult as on-site camping needed to be part of the deal, Remington added. “We were turning people away,” said Robert Remington, the festival’s artistic director. That was both a blessing and a curse: Due to the limitations of the site, expansion was not possible. The former incarnation, held each year on Father’s Day weekend, became so popular during its final years in Sooke it sold out regularly. The lineage of the Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival can be traced back to 2002, when it began life as a tiny, homespun festival held at the Sooke River Campground. Tickets: $30-$85 daily ($125 for a weekend pass) from Where: Laketown Ranch Music & Recreation Park, 8811 Youbou Rd., Lake Cowichan
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